Printed share certificate on vellum; 22.5 x 105 mm, completed in manuscript in ink.For the first thirty years of the colony of NSW, there was no organised and regulated banking system, rather a.... More

Large printed vellum leaf, completed in manuscript, approx. 290 x 257 mm., verso blank except for ms. docket title; original folds, with well-preserved ribbon and paper seal attached.Fine original land grant signed by the sixth governor, for 200 acres in Methven... More

Quarto, single leaf, 2pp., manuscript in ink on paper.An ephemeral example of the emerging New South Wales economy with a rare association. David Collins' own account of the new settlement (An Account of the English... More

Quarto, autograph manuscript in ink; single page on a bifolium with address panel; on paper watermarked "LVG"An amusing letter from Lord Sandwich to John Hawkesworth, editor and ghostwriter of the official account of Cook's first voyage (An... More

Cook's "meddlesome editor" to Joseph Banks about the third voyage engravings

Single page, quarto, numbered "201" at the top right-hand corner; inscribed in an early nineteenth century hand "To Sir Joseph Banks"A fine letter from the editor of Cook's third voyage to Sir Joseph... More

Manuscript in ink on official paper (watermark "GR" with a crown), written in ink on one side of a single sheet, 239 x 201 mm, small folio.Rare document relating to the provisioning of Cook's third... More

Senior officer of the d'Entrecasteaux voyage presents the official account

Manuscript letter, 227 x 183 mm., on a bifolium sheet, letter comprising first page with three blank pages, dated and signed by Rossel; folded to letter size, addressed with remnants of seal.A friendly letter from... More

Letter signed on official letterhead of the "Ministère de la Marine", 310 x 200 mm.Intriguing letter which shows the workings of the inner circle of French grands voyages experts and veterans, explicitly thanking Bory de Saint-Vincent for the... More

Small folio, 18 pp. manuscript, comprising 4 pp. letter to Freycinet and four transcribed letters totalling 14 pp.An exceptional archive of correspondence involving three major Pacific voyagers. Louis-Isidore Duperrey, who had returned from his world voyage in... More

Manuscript album measuring 188 x 138 mm., bound in full polished calf, spine gilt with raised bands, boards embossed and decorated in gilt, dentelles, edges gilt; silk endpapers.In 1915 a soldier's rest centre was opened at Poperinghe, Belgium. It was named Talbot... More

Four single sheets; including two printed receipts from Gould, 13.5 x 21 cm, both completed in manuscript, one with internal revenue stamp and signature of Gould, purchase order from Maidstone Museum, 12.5... More

Published quarto, bound manuscript, and other materials (full description below).An archive of material relating to the smouldering volcanic outcrop at Mount Wingen, prepared by local landholder and pastoralist William Edward Abbott (1844-1924) and his nephew John Henry Abbott (1874-1953). William... More

Single-page letter on single folded sheet, 255 x 195 mm., address panel, slightly torn where originally opened at red wax seal; very good.An intriguing letter sent from on board Hyacinthe de Bougainville's command the Thétis... More

Single sheet folded to form 4 pp., small octavo, neat manuscript in ink on both sides of first leaf, second leaf blank except for filing note.Written by the Pacific explorer Laplace in Toulon aboard his second... More

The Comte de Lauraguais, old friend of Sir Joseph Banks, still dazzlingly witty at 90

Three autograph letters, 260 x 195 mm.Three interesting and witty letters written by an elderly Comte de Lauraguais, providing a revealing glimpse of the exalted scientific circles in which he still moved... More

Three page manuscript letter, 205 x 165 mm., on a single sheet folded in half; postal stamps, remnants of red wax seal.Most uncommon autograph letter by the naturalist Lhotsky, written off the Cornish coast in... More

Folio; manuscript in ink on vellum, 303 x 390 mm; in fine original condition, with suspended paper seal.A good, early grant by Macquarie as fifth governor, with the signatures of Charles Whelan as witness and Frederick Goulburn... More

Two-page autograph letter by Marsden, on watermarked paper, 325 x 200 mm., original red wax seal, old folds; stamp for the Parramatta post office.A letter from the aging and indefatigable Marsden to the pastoralists' agent, George Ranken agreeing to... More

London: 6 December, 1838. Single sheet, wove paper, 23 x 18.5 cm.; some wear along the old folds, but in excellent condition.A fascinating manuscript document, thanking Mitchell for his gift to Queen Victoria of his 'Work on Australia, and a Set of his Maps'. The letter is dated December... More

Two laid paper sheets measuring 315 x 205 mm., the first comprising the manuscript letter, the second being the original cover sheet with docket title.Early manuscript document pre-dating the departure of the First Fleet concerning two principal figures in... More

Newcastle, N.S.W. 31 July, 1845. Three-page letter, folded to letter-size 255 x 205 mm., stamped at both Sydney and Newcastle.An interesting intra-colonial letter from the Newcastle businessman William Dudding to the prominent Sydney trader Robert Towns. William Dudding was a civil servant working in the Hunter. In 1850 he... More